MARIA STEIN - The Marion Local Schools Board of Education sought applications for the superintendent position, conducted two rounds of interviews and then offered the job to someone who never applied.
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Loa Welker, 84, St. Marys, died at 2:23 a.m. Feb. 3, 2011, at her home.
She was born Dec. 24, 1926, in Mercer County, to Homer and Lydia Good Brookhart. On March 15, 1947, she married Arthur Welker, who died March 13, 2009.
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Betty E. Vannette, 84, St. Marys, died at 11 p.m. Feb. 2, 2011, at her home.
She was born Feb. 9, 1926, in Berne, Ind., to Jesse and Velma Habegger Balsiger. On Feb. 22, 1946, she married Burton L. Vannette, who survives.
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